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Weightlifting competitions at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London were held from 28 July to 7 August in the ExCeL venue. Fifteen gold medals were awarded and 260 athletes took part (156 men and 104 women).
Thus, Saeid Mohammadpour of Iran, who had originally finished fifth, was declared the 2012 Olympic champion. [4] On 6 October 2016, the IWF reported that as a consequence of the IOC's reanalyses of samples from the 2012 Olympic Games, a sample from Norayr Vardanyan of Armenia, who had originally finished 11th, had returned a positive result. In ...
Total score was the sum of the lifter's best result in each of the snatch and the clean and jerk, with three lifts allowed for each lift.In case of a tie, the lighter lifter won; if still tied, the lifter who took the fewest attempts to achieve the total score won.
This is the complete list of Olympic medalists in weightlifting. Current program. Men. Featherweight –60 kg (1920–1936) 56–60 kg (1948–1992) ... 2012 London ...
May 10 – ?: 2012 Pan American Weightlifting Championships in Antigua Guatemala [11] Colombia won both the gold and overall medal tallies. June 4 – ?: 2012 Oceania Senior, Junior, & Youth Weightlifting Championships in Apia [12] [13] [14] Senior: Samoa won the gold medal tally. Australia won the overall medal tally.
On 22 December 2018, it was announced that Azerbaijan's Valentin Hristov, London 2012 Olympic bronze medalist, had tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs. [3] In March 2019, Hristov was disqualified after the re-analysis of his samples were positive for oralturinabol. [4] Medals were reallocated. [5]
On 15 June 2016, it was announced that gold medalist Maiya Maneza had tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs at the 2012 Olympic competition. [3] On 27 July 2016, the IWF reported in the second wave of re-sampling that silver medalist Svetlana Tsarukaeva had tested positive for the steroid dehydrochlormethyltestosterone . [ 4 ]
Russia's Tatiana Kashirina set a world record in the snatch with a lift of 151kg, becoming the first woman to snatch 150kg, while China's Zhou Lulu set a world record in the total with 333kg, as well as an Olympic record in the clean and jerk with a lift of 187kg. Ukraine's Svitlana Cherniavska was on the start list but did not compete. [3]